Joel Fredrick Dubina

Joel Fredrick Dubina (26 October 1947-) was Judge of the US District Court of Appeals for the Middle District of Alabama from 1986 to 1990 (succeeding Robert Edward Varner and preceding William Harold Albritton III), Judge of the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit from 1990 to 2013 (succeeding Robert Smith Vance and preceding Kevin Newsom), and Chief Judge of the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit from 2009 to 2013 (succeeding James Larry Edmondson and preceding Edward E. Carnes).

Biography
Joel Fredrick Dubina was born in Elkhart, Indiana on 26 October 1947, and he graduated from the University of Alabama and from the Cumberland School of Law. He worked as a lawyer in Montgomery, Alabama from 1974 to 1983, and he became a Court of Appeals judge in 1986, a Circuit Court judge in 1990, and Chief Judge of the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in 2009. He retired in 2013, and his daughter Martha Roby became a congresswoman.